IRS: Worker took home personal info on 20K workers

AP ^ | March 18 2014 | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

[MeshugeMikey]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internal Revenue Service employee took home personal information on about 20,000 IRS workers, former workers and contractors, putting the data at risk for public release, the agency said Tuesday.

The employee took home a computer thumb drive containing names, Social Security numbers and addresses of the workers, and plugged the drive into an unsecure home network, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in an email to employees.

[upchuck]

An IRS spokeswoman declined to comment on the status of the employee who took home the data, citing federal privacy laws.

If there is a law that prevents us from knowing the details of the disciplinary steps taken against this individual, that law needs to be changed.

This person needs to be in prison, posthaste.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That list could come in mighty handy.

[Dante3]

Seems there are new IRS scandals every month. And still nothing done to Ms. Lerner. She needs to be convicted and lose her pension.

[MeshugeMikey]

The ADULTS had best wrest control of the governmet back from the so call progressives VERT SOON

November 2104 is not that far off in the future.

[MeshugeMikey]

That allegedly non existent Nasty Smidgeon of corruption in the IRS...is a mile wide and a mile deep

[GizzyGirl]

Who is to say that he/she did not only take the names, numbers, addresses of people who donate to XXX or YYY, or who have any reference in their donations to XXX or YYY, something “Patriot”. I know you would not expect that from and IRS worker, but what if it's another attack on TeaParty supporters. They exist in the IRS, but they have to hide it, big time!

[GizzyGirl]

Oops, I just saw 20,000. But still, no matter what, this is wrong, wrong, wrong!

[Balding_Eagle]

This case is just the one which became public. I notice they chose to use one which didn’t have the names of the public at large.

I imagine most of us have had our files stolen by any one of a number of alphabet agency employees. Those incidents haven’t and won’t be released to the public.

[babygene]

“EVEN if these people were IRS agents...they still have a right to privacy...”

I disagree.

[Organic Panic]

Shut up and pay your fair share. Welfare recipients are depending on you.

[MeshugeMikey]

let em eat thier BTS cards

[mindburglar]

Nope. No quarters for quislings. Expose them. Destroy their lives. Make it so nobody wants that job. Evil pieces of garbage. All of them.

[MeshugeMikey]

The problem herein is that while we may be correct in defining them as quislings, for our Nation Of Laws to REMAIN a Nation of Laws they remain entitled to the same protection under the law that You and I do.

[mindburglar]

Nope. They are selectively enforcing laws, using their authority to punish people they don’t agree with politically.

They have forfeited their rights as they have seen to it that they have taken away the rights of others.

[MeshugeMikey]

I don’t know that all of the people represented in that stack of 20K present and past Irs employees is a scofflaw. Chances are pretty good that a fair number of them were or are.

As such I can’t pass judgement on them all en masse.

Id like to see the IRS demolished, but Im not willing to condemn the whole lot of the people whose social security numbers were purloined along with other personal data.

[GladesGuru]

I live in FLorida, which has a strong “Sunshine Law”, a Florida Public Documents Act, etc.

Anything done while the AgencyPerson is on the job is public. Period.

Works for Floridians.

;-)

[mindburglar]

Fair enough. I’m a scorched Earth type of guy. I agree that the IRS should be abolished.

[MeshugeMikey]

Amen..Onward and Upward!